Folks are getting up early this morning to join us in Boston for our first user group meeting. Some of the Coradiant product team had sushi with early arrivals from a couple of companies; I was struck by how weird it is to have a conversation with someone about TrueSight or the future of [...]

- Blogs are now a near second to newspapers as the most trusted information source: A quarter (24%) of Europeans consider blogs a trusted source of information, still behind newspaper articles (30%), but ahead of television advertising (17%) and email marketing (14%).- High spenders are most trusting of blogs: Of those who spend more than [...]

WRIPE is readier than it was, especially for voting. Anybody fancy a trip over there? One of the features that isn’t clear enough from the home page is that you can click through to a section where you’ll find many more stories.So if you’re on the home page you’ll notice section names like Diet Cast, [...]

Italian travel agency called Synthravels is offering virtual tours of Second Life, World of Warcraft and other virtual playing and living spaces to help alleviate aversions to online realm experiences. All prospective tourists need to do is log onto the Synthravels website, schedule a preferred date and time for the trip, download the software for [...]

Hotmail apparently is experiencing a major outage. The message I got at 9:44am ET was:
Server too busy.
We are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the following:

In your browser, click Refresh
In your browser, click Back, and try again
Wait a few minutes and try again
 We apologize for this inconvenience.
This is the first Microsoft Hotmail outage that I have seen in quite some time. Guess I'll be using my GMail account this morning.

Further, if you go to www.live.com, Microsoft's highly touted site, you also get this error message. I just went to wwww.microsoft.com and some of the images loaded very slowly. I then headed over to www.msn.com and some of the links are very very slow. DDOS attack on Microsoft? I'll report when I find out more.

Here's the text copy/pasted from my browser:

Server Too BusyWe are experiencing higher than normal volume and are therefore unable to service your request at this time. Try one of the following:
In your browser, click Refresh In your browser, click Back, and try again Wait a few minutes and try again We apologize for this inconvenience.
And here's a screenshot. Click for larger version.



Update: 9:56am
It appears that www.live.com is back up, however, Hotmail still gives the same error message.

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Now we have news that Best Buy is reportedly forcing web sites that list their "Black Friday" sales to take down that information.

Who can forget the famous electric guitarists in rock music history, Jimi Hendrix? He was a talented self taught musician who was known to play the right-handed Fender Stratocaster guitar turned upside down but unfortunately met untimely death and...

I have been tardy in keeping up with this BLOG stream of storage cost categories. I will try to get a few more posts in before the thanksgiving holiday.# 15 - Cost of Electricity - Storage assets, like all IT assets consume large quantities of electricity. Steady-state operation, including power conditioning, batter back-up, UPS systems [...]

I was speaking at a partner event this week in NJ, and shared the stage with VMware. During the discussion, a mention was made about Pacific Gas and Electric, a large US utility company, offering rebates (or financial incentives) for data centers that invest in server virtualization technology. This rebate is due to the lower [...]

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Today, limited end-to-end bandwidth hangs up high quality video streaming, particularly for households. Fatter pipes in the last mile are one solution, but establishing quality of service across the public Internet would allow users to do more with less bandwidth by giving priority to those voice and video packets. QoS across the Internet is not ready yet, but it's inevitable, says Tony Hurtado, vice president of marketing at  Masergy, a vendor of MPLS network services for businesses.

If you've ever needed to add complex equations to a PowerPoint orKeynote presentation or a Word document, then you need to know aboutLaTeXiT,an OS X application that typesets LaTeX without the need to create afile and run it through LaTeX. The images it creates are draggableto other applications. Of course, you have to know LaTeX to set upthe equations, but if you need to typeset math, there's no way aroundthat in any event.

I've evangelized the SunGard concept of a Registry often (the CSA Registry, or asset catalog of services from decomposed applications), and although I firmly believe in the necessity of any SOA effort, I'd like to make it clear that success with collaborative Service Oriented Architectures involves a large number of synchronized, yet parallel initiatives.